This Pizza Hut Employee Was Fired After Writing A Dirty Joke On A Pizza Box

"The customer is always right" is a phrase that retail workers have become far too familiar with since the phrase was first coined in the early 1900s. But, to people using the #JusticeForPizzaGirl hashtag on Twitter, that logic doesn't seem to apply here, since users on the app are currently voicing their outrage following the termination of a Pizza Hut employee who wrote a dirty joke on a customer's pizza box.

The unnamed employee was let go from a Pizza Hut in Stafford, Virginia after a customer discovered the inappropriate joke that was written on the box, per her teenage sons' request.

What would you do if you got this joke in your pizza box? This mom complained and the @pizzahut worker was fired even though the customer asked for a joke in their online order. Now mom's being cyber bullied. pic.twitter.com/sxhirwvYiW

According to Virginia's WJLA, the mother's 12-year-old and a 15-year-old sons ordered the pizza online and asked for a joke to be delivered with it, though a joke of this nature probably isn't at all what they were expecting. The joke in question was written in silver Sharpie on the inside of the box.

"What do a pizza delivery driver and a gynocologist [sic] have in common," the joke asks. "They both have to smell it, but neither of them get to eat it."

Upon discovering the joke, the parent — whose name WJLA is now keeping anonymous because of cyberbullies — complained to management and posted a photo of the box on social media.

"I was really shocked and floored that Pizza Hut would send that type of joke out," the mother told WJLA. "The employee even called, and I told her that I hope she doesn't lose her job over this."

But, sadly, she did lose her job. And, as cringe-y as the joke is, social media users who have dubbed the employee "Pizza Girl" are now coming to her defense.

It's become pretty common for customers to include humor in their requests when ordering takeout. It's not clear if the Pizza Hut location has any plans to hire the employee back, but let Pizza Girl's story be a lesson that there's a time and a place for dirty jokes — and pizza boxes probably aren't the place.

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